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Face to Face Outlines It’s 2018 Achievements and Current Programs

At the first Face to Face staff meeting of the new year, we took time to reflect on all we accomplished in 2018 in support of our mission to end HIV in Sonoma County. Here is a short list: We moved dozens of clients into housing, continuing to assist dozens more with their housing searches. We supported clients through the complicated state and federal income benefits claims process. We tested hundreds of people for HIV and Hepatitis C, finding a few new cases of HIV and guiding those individuals through our Sonoma County HIV system of care. We distributed clean […]

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GAY L.A.: The Last Los Angeles Bathhouse

“To the left of me,” wrote David Colker for the Los Angeles Times in a 1994 article, “four men were having sex. Only two of them were actually looking at each other.” So begins most bathhouse stories of the time. At the Compound, one of the Valley’s oldest establishments, porn would screen on the walls while patrons got it on in public (or private) rooms below. But not for long. Even in 1994, the gay bathhouse’s days were numbered. “A decade ago,” Colker writes, “Los Angeles boasted slick, high-tech bathhouses famous throughout the gay world. But as the specter of […]

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Kansas Reintroduces Laws to Protect LGBTI People from Workplace Discrimination

Senator Laura Kelly signing executive orders on her first day in office | Photo: Facebook/Gov Laura Kelly 16 January 2019    9:23 GMT Kansas’ new governor has signed back into law anti-discrimination measures for LGBTI workers employed by the state government. Governor Laura Kelly made it illegal again to discriminate against LGBTI government workers. Her predecessor, Sam Brownback, overturned anti-discrimination laws in 2015. He overturned the laws in the same year the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality. At the time of the ruling Brownback said marriage equality created a new ‘protected class’. Kelly signed the executive order on […]

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DNC Blasts Karen Pence For Job At Anti-LGBT School: No Child Should Fear Expulsion Just For Coming Out

Just in from the Democratic National Committee: Second Lady Karen Pence began teaching art at Immanuel Christian School, which refuses admission to LGBTQ students and allies and forces prospective employees to sign a pledge not to engage in “homosexual or lesbian activity or transgender identity.” In response, DNC LGBTQ Media Director Lucas Acosta issued the following statement: “Mike Pence has repeatedly supported anti-LGBTQ groups and treated us like second-class citizens. It is no surprise that the Second Lady holds the same values. School should be a place where every child feels welcome, free to identify, and empowered to learn without […]

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Homophobic Remarks Surface After 2020 Presidential Announcement

It’s been one day since Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) announced she was running for president in the 2020 election, and parts of her conservative past are already coming back to haunt her. They returned in the form of homophobic remarks the congresswoman made over a decade ago. At least twice the Hawaii Democrat publicly called the LGBTQ community and supporters of same-sex marriage “homosexual extremists.” In one instance in February 2004, Gabbard, at the time a 22-year-old state representative, was testifying against a bill aimed at legalizing same-sex civil unions. “To try to act as if there is a difference […]

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Girls, 11, Died by Suicide after Being Bullied for ‘Questioning Their Sexuality’

Anti-gay bullying may have contributed to the suicide of an 11-year-old girl and her best friend, says the father of one of the girls. Madissen Foxx Paulsen took her own life using her dad’s gun in December 2017 in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. Her best friend Sophia Leaf-Abrahamson, 11, then died by suicide in February 2018 just two months later. Speaking to PinkNews, Madissen’s father Shane Paulsen explained that he feared his daughter was bullied for her close relationship with Sophia. Picture of Madissen Paulsen, who died aged 11 in December 2017. (Shane Paulsen) “I just don’t know how far […]

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Activists Warn of a New Wave of Anti-gay Attacks in Chechnya

Activists are warning of a new wave of anti-gay attacks in the Russian republic of Chechnya. According to a social media post last night (10 January), activists are urging LGBTI Chechens to flee immediately, amid a new crackdown against LGBTI people. It is understood authorities received new contact details of LGBTI people living in Chechnya. ‘We ask anyone still free to take this message seriously and leave the republic as soon as is possible,’ the statement read. Chechan soldiers ‘would not even want to touch such people’ It continued: ‘I ask you to turn to human rights activists, the media, friends […]

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Polish Mayor and LGBTI Ally Stabbed in the Heart on Stage at Event

Polish mayor Pawel Adamowicz has died after being fatally stabbed at a charity event. The LGBTI ally was stabbed in the heart and abdomen by an ex-convict who rushed onto the stage with a knife yesterday (13 January). Blood donors flooded to hospitals in a bid to help save Adamowicz. But Poland’s health minister Lukasz Szumowski has confirmed the mayor died, saying, ‘we couldn’t win.’ The attack happened in moments at the 27th annual fundraiser organized by the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. Footage showed the Gdansk mayor on stage with a sparkler in hand, saying it had been a […]

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Out Texas Lawmakers Form State’s First LGBT Caucus

LGBT+ Texas lawmakers Celia Israel, Jessica González, Erin Zwiener, Mary González and Julie Johnson (Equality Texas) Five out Democrats in Texas have formed the first LGBT+ caucus in the state’s legislature. The five lawmakers came together to launch the first official LGBT+ caucus, which will fight for equal rights in the traditionally-conservative, Republican-controlled state. The LGBT+ caucus will be chaired by state representative Mary González, who was only the second out lawmaker in Texas history when she was elected in 2012. She will be joined by all of the state’s other out lawmakers—Celia Israel, who was elected in 2014, as well […]

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Gay Jewish Owner of San Francisco Civic Engagement Space Faces Weekly Protests

Manny’s Cafe, a civic engagement space in San Francisco’s Mission District, has been facing an onslaught of protest. Manny Yekutiel, the space’s owner, is the gay son of an Afghan refugee. He opened the doorsto the community space in November 2016. Since then, it’s been a hub for cultural and intellectual discourse. It has been a host to speakers from many social justice causes, including Black Lives Matter. Visitors are also welcome to peruse the space’s bookstore for titles from authors like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Howard Zinn. The food at the space is prepared daily by Farming Hope, a non-profit […]

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